The creative arts can relate to many forms of the arts embodied in action and practice among them (but not restricted to) drama, dance and musical performance, visual arts, writing, publishing, graphic arts, cartooning, film, multi media and design.

In Humane

To be humane is to have or show compassion or benevolence.

Being concerned with the alleviation of suffering.

To interact with care, consideration and respect.

Medicine

the word medicine is from the Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing.

Broadly speaking the practice of medicine is to be

active in the prevention and treatment of illness.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Physician Reports the Arts and Digital Story in Medical Education Helps Teach Students About Patients

"Creative artistic expression has only recently been integrated into the teaching and practice of medicine. The use of various forms of art through painting, narrative, sculpture and music has been shown to be both therapeutic as well as instructive to both instructor and student, physician-healer and patient. The use of expressive voice as a methodology for encouraging students to understand and translate their knowledge into practice is consciousness raising. It also offers the opportunity to give students an understanding of the complexities of emotion, and its connections with health and illness.

Although not always clear to students because of their rigorous and long years of study, health education centers around the study of people, and the subsequent call to action.

This action is rooted in identifying the social condition through various mechanisms, the more creative and personal the more effective and impactful.

The inclusion of art enriches the understanding of self and place giving life to new interventions that heal.

The Georgetown Department of Family Medicine has chosen to use digital stories as a mechanism to move students from the written page to the visual image. This tool links the social, environmental, and historical issues that influence health and illness through graphics. The students are encouraged to include the collective community voice, learn about patient-centered themes and issues, in addition to determining effective solutions which contribute to the healing process.

About this Book

is a resource for medical educators and medical students as well asthose engaged in Medical Humanities, Public Health, Health Promotion, Social Work and the Social Services and the allied health professions featuring research as well as illustrative examples of the creative arts in action for humane medicine...

…the book features contributions from physicians, medical educators and researchers, allied health professionals across Canada, the U.S., U.K. and Australia, as well as medical students, residents, artists and others advocating for change showing how the creative arts in many forms can contribute towardhumane medicine.”

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